Today is Friday, March 29th, the 89th day of 2024. There are 277 days left this year.
Today's history highlights:
March 29, 1973the last American combat troops left South Vietnam, and direct American military involvement in the Vietnam War ended.
This date:
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered a relief expedition to Fort Sumter in South Carolina, which remained in Union hands despite repeated Confederate demands for its surrender.
In 1867, The British North American Act, passed by Parliament and signed by Queen Victoria, came into force in July of the following year, creating the Dominion of Canada.
In 1943, Meat, fat, and cheese rationing began during World War II, and consumers were limited to an average of about 2 pounds per week of beef, pork, lamb, and mutton in stores using a coupon system. .
In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in New York of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. (They executed her in June 1953.)
In 1971, Army Lt. William L. Carey Jr. was convicted of killing 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. (Curry ultimately served three years under house arrest.) And a Los Angeles jury recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate La Bianca murders. (The sentence was commuted in 1972 when the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty.)
In 1974, Eight members of the Ohio National Guard have been indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The charges were later dropped.)
1984Under cover of early morning darkness, the Baltimore Colts football team left its home of 30 years and relocated to Indianapolis.
in 2002Israeli forces stormed President Yasser Arafat's headquarters complex in the West Bank in a raid that began in response to anti-Israel attacks that killed 30 people over three days.
2004President George W. Bush welcomed seven former Soviet Union countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, and Estonia) into NATO at a ceremony at the White House.
In 2010, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up twice in a Moscow subway station crowded with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100.
in 2020country singer Joe Diffie, who had a string of hit songs in the 1990s, has died at the age of 61, and his publicist said it was due to complications from the coronavirus infection.
In 2018, Russia announced the expulsion of more than 150 diplomats, including 60 Americans, and closed its U.S. consulate in retaliation for Western countries expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Britain. announced that it would be closed.
In 2021, At the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin appears as onlookers repeatedly yell “get off” and Floyd gasps, “I can't get down.” Prosecutors showed a video of the jury pressing their knee on a black man's neck for several minutes. I breathe. (Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.)
in 2021G. Gordon Liddy, the mastermind behind the Watergate scandal and a radio talk show host after his release from prison, has died at the age of 90 at his daughter's home in Virginia.
in 2022The Foo Fighters have canceled all scheduled concert dates four days after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.
Today's birthday: Author Judith Guest is 88 years old. Former British Prime Minister Sir John Major and comedian Eric Idle are 81 years old. Basketball Hall of Famer Walt Frazier is 79 years old. Singer Bobby Kimball (Toto) is 77 years old. Actor Bud Cort is 76 years old. Actor Brendan Gleeson, professional, actor. College Football Hall of Famer Earl Campbell and actor Marina Sirtis are 69 years old, actor Christopher Lambert is 67 years old, singer Perry Farrell (of Jane's Addiction) is 65 years old, and comedian and actor Amy Sedaris is 69 years old. Model Elle Macpherson is 63 years old, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Neverland, and actor Annabella Sciorra are 60 years old. Film director Michel Hazanavicius and singer/musician John Popper (Blues Traveler) are 57 years old. Actor Lucy Lawless is 56 years old. Country singer Brady Shields is 55 years old. Actor Sam Hazeldine is 52 years old. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jennifer Capriati is 48 years old, R&B singer PJ Morton and actor Megan Hilty are 43 years old, and pop singer Kelly Sweet is 36 years old.
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